...Having at the start of the work said that the essence of political power is the power of life and death ('political power then I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death' [Sec. 3]), he tries to show that parents do not have the power to kill their children. This may seem...

...under these different relations, it may help us to distinguish these powers one from another, and show the difference betwixt a ruler of a commonwealth,...right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the...

...under these different relations, it may help us to distinguish these powers one from another, and show the difference betwixt a ruler of a commonwealth,...right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the...

...the public with the private. Locke then gave a distinctly modern account of the role of the polis: political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death and, consequently, all less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the...

...Hobbes, Locke too underlines that the political sphere is concerned with the protection of property: "Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws, with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the...

...find a safer description of the end of government than is given , later on : — " Political power I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating 1 Cf. Leslie Stephen, English Thought in the Eighteenth...

...original); John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (New York: Mentor, 1965), II: § 3 ("Political Power then I take to be a Right of making Laws"; emphasis in original); The Federalist no. 5 1 , 349 ("The interest of the man must be connected to...

...under these different Relations, it may help us to distinguish these Powers one from another, and shew the difference betwixt a Ruler of a Common-wealth, a Father of a Family, and a Captain of a Galley, (n, 2) Filmer's theory conflates these relations, but also maintains the principle of differentiation...

...systematischen Zusammenhang kündigt bereits die eingangs gebotene Definition der politischen Gewalt an: „Political Power then I take to be a Right of making Laws with Penalties of Death, and consequently all less Penalties, for the Regulating and Preserving of Property".7 Diese zunächst irritierende...

...of my preservation" (T II. 17, 123). Other times it is used to mean "right" or "authority," as in: "Political power then I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death," and, "the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other...